Kalel
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #9,736 · #1,159 for boys in 2025, 180 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 257 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,400since 1996
Kalel over time
Rank among boys' names. Kalel has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,159 | 180 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,122 | 190 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,088 | 197 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,002 | 222 | |
| 2021 | — | #977 | 227 | |
| 2020 | — | #986 | 216 | |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #935 | 233 |
| 2018 | — | #981 | 211 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #876 | 245 |
| 2016 | — | #885 | 247 | |
| 2015 | — | #896 | 243 | |
| 2014 | — | #859 | 257 | |
| 2013 | — | #962 | 208 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,182 | 153 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,088 | 171 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,102 | 174 | |
| 2009 | — | #978 | 203 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,046 | 181 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,053 | 178 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,091 | 161 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,838 | 70 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,193 | 53 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,470 | 42 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,755 | 34 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,321 | 26 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,536 | 23 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,103 | 26 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kalel! It came in at #5,982, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1998, when fewer than 12 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kalel
- 37 spots since 2024 (#1,122 → #1,159)
- 173 spots since 2020 (#986 → #1,159)
- 263 spots since 2015 (#896 → #1,159)
- Biggest jump: 220 spots in 2013 (#1,182 → #962)
- Biggest drop: 124 spots in 2010 (#978 → #1,102)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2014 at #859 (257 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2013–2021
- Highest: 1 in 7,474 boys born in 2014 were named Kalel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,489 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 48.7% of all boys named Kalel (2,142) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 55 | #3,103 (1999) | #5,163 |
| 2000s | 971 | #978 (2009) | #2,028 |
| 2010s | 2,142 | #859 (2014) | #977 |
| 2020s | 1,232 | #977 (2021) | #1,056 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kalel in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 345,292 of them was named Kalel, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #14,124Zyleigh6
- #14,124Zyllah6
- #14,124Zyona6
- #15,902Kalel5
- #15,902Aadilynn5
- #15,902Aafiyah5
- #15,902Aaheli5
Tied with 2,546 names at #15,902; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,555 of them was named Kalel, which outranked 93.9% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #873Coleman246
- #873Draven246
- #873Rudy246
- #876Kalel245
- #876Dario245
- #876Davion245
- #876Kolten245
- #882Briar244
- #882Rogelio244
- #882Xzavier244
Tied with 5 names at #876; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.